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Mais um Balança de que gosto muito, nascido a 25 de Setembro de 1903.
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Entrance to Subway (1938)
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«The progression of a painter's work, as it travels in time from point to point, will be toward clarity: toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, and between the idea and the observer. (...) To achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood».
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Tiger’s Eye, Vol. 1, no 9, October 1949 - citado in Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics, ed. Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York 1990, p. 170.
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N.º 11 (1963)
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«I am not an abstractionist... I am not interested in the relationships of color or form or anything else... I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on — and the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures show that I communicate those basic human emotions... The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationships, then you miss the point!»
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In Conversations with Artists, Selden Rodman, New York Devin-Adair 1957. p. 93. Reimpresso in 'Notes from a conversation with Selden Rodman, 1956', in Writings on Art: Mark Rothko (2006) ed. Miguel López-Remiro p. 119.
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«A painting is not a picture of an experience; it is an experience».
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'Mark Rothko', Dorothy Seiberling in LIFE magazine (16 de Novembro de 1959), p. 82.
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Rothko Chapel (1964-1967)
